[The Death of Mr. Sedley] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Death of Mr. Sedley]
Subject: Women, White; Men; Death; Women; Death and burial; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: England; Europe
Description: Amelia Sedley kneels by her father’s bedside, holding his hand as they pray together as he dies. Two other men, possibly the doctor and the butler, also stand in the room, but a few steps back from the bed.
Image Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Steel-plate engraving
Identifier: mta:22450
Language: eng
Source Name: Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero
Parent Collection: Vanity Fair; Vanity Fair
Image: mta_22450_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Vanity Fair
Subject: Women, White; Men; Death; Women; Death and burial; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Manners and customs; Upper class in literature; Upper class families; Fiction